By NORIMITSU ONISHI24 June 2011 SHIKA, Japan — Near a nuclear power plant facing the Sea of Japan, a series of exhibitions in a large public relations building here extols the virtues of the energy source with some help from “Alice in Wonderland.” “It’s terrible, just terrible,” the White Rabbit says in the first exhibit. […]
By Takemichi Nishibori, Yoshinori Hayashi, Yukiko Nagatomi, and Ryo Inoue25 June 2011 IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture – Rubble, some of it potentially radioactive, continues to be a headache for municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture although the government has finally come up with standards to deal with it. Rubble has piled up since May 2, when the Environment […]
June 25 (Asahi Shimbun) – Disappointment toward Tokyo Electric Power Co. for its failure to guard the safety of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and anger at the central government’s inept handling of the accident. Those are the two major themes that emerge from the results of an interview survey of 407 evacuees […]
[Answer: No.] By Michael Moyer 21 Jun 2011 A recent article on the Al Jazeera English web site cites a disturbing statistic: infant mortality in certain U.S. Northwest cities spiked by 35 percent in the weeks following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The author writes that “physician Janette Sherman MD and […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera24 June 2011 There they go. Dr. Shunichi Yamashita must be thrilled for the prospect of a research of a lifetime! Fukushima Prefecture decided to fit ALL kindergartners, elementary school and junior high school children in Fukushima Prefecture, 280,000 of them, with what NHK World called “dosimeters” to monitor the radiation level as experienced […]
NODA, Chiba, June 23 (Mainichi Japan) – The municipal government here independently set a 1.0 millisievert maximum annual radiation dose for children, and will take anti-exposure measures should doses at schools in the city exceed that figure, it was announced on June 22. Noda and other municipalities in northwest Chiba Prefecture, where radiation levels are […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera22 June 2011 […] There is this news that has been reported widely in Japan as something “good”: Cities and towns in Fukushima Prefecture are fitting children – kindergarteners, elementary school children, and junior high school children – with radiation monitoring badges to keep track of the external radiation that they will receive. I […]
June 22 (Asahi Shimbun) – All residents forced to evacuate or remain indoors because of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant will receive at least 100,000 yen ($1,230) a month for mental distress, a government panel said. “All evacuees have suffered similar pain and suffering in terms of having their daily lives greatly […]
By Takao Yamada, Expert Senior Writer, Mainichi Japan20 June 2011 […] One figure who has entered the public spotlight in the wake of the nuclear crisis is 61-year-old Hiroaki Koide, an assistant professor at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute and a controversialist in the anti-nuclear debate. A specialist in nuclear power, Koide has garnered […]
By Marga Ortigas, AlJazeera English 19 June 2011 The nuclear plant at Japan’s Fukushima may be leaking radiation, but people are still going there daily to look for employment where about 2,200 of the 2,500 working there are subcontractors. In the last three months, at least eight workers have been exposed to high levels of […]
